Load of the rings - Thanks once again for your advice.

Can assure you I am not intentionally sharing the red files
The limewire backup utility doesn't seem to like the intel computers, does not do anything just sits there, when selecting set up - nothing registers or pops up - thanks anyway Just a note: on my old PowerPC running OSX10.4.11 - the utility does open and allows you to use the set up. No limewire on that machine now

You queried the location of the .dat file. Is there someone who is using 4.18.2 maybe could let me know where their downloads.dat and downloads.bak are located.
As mentioned previously I cant find a downloads.bak file anywhere on my computer........ should this be the case with 4.18.2

If all else fails I would prefer to dump the 4.18.2 and install the previous 4.16.? (is that possible when you download online - no cd) it didn't have any of these problems